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Comment on Quick guide to the new app widget padding/margins in ICS / Android 4.0+ (backwards-compatibility & new issues) by radley

radley — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:02:44 +0000

Hard to say – I don’t think I’ve seen the problem start there (i.e. not showing up in the list). It’s got to be something in your Manifest or widget-info.

Comment on Quick guide to the new app widget padding/margins in ICS / Android 4.0+ (backwards-compatibility & new issues) by mradlmaier

mradlmaier — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:46:55 +0000

I am a dveloper and I have developed a widget build against API 8, TargetSDK 8. Everything nice and fine so far. Recently I updated my SGS to ICS 4.03 and took the chance to test against ICS on a real device. As I am in the process of moving all my apps to ICS, I build against API 15 and with TargetSDK set to 15.
Now what happens, is that the widgets disappear from the new app/widget launcher???

If I build against API 8 with TargetSDK set to API 8, it will appear like all pre-ICS widgets in the launcher (with the thin frame around them) like expected…

In Eclipse I can see that 5 new parameters have been added:
PreviewImage, Auto advance view id, Resize mode, Min resize width, Min resize height.
I assume, to make the widget appear in the launcher, I have to specify some of these values?

BTW, I am using HD Widgets on my SGS and on my Acer Iconia tab since you published the first version, I am completely happy. No other clock/weather widget around which looks as good and is as configurable than your HD Widgets (And I tried all major clock/weather widgets). I especially love the transparent version which blends in so nicely, on whatver wallpaper is in use. Great work!

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Comment on Quick guide to the new app widget padding/margins in ICS / Android 4.0+ (backwards-compatibility & new issues) by radley

radley — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:31:33 +0000

It sounds like they’re sticky notes so they’re disposable. Old ones will be over-padded and will inevitably be replaced by normal ones. Don’t think you’ll get much complaints (particularly if you point out how/why it happens).

Of course there’s an opportunity here to add a carrot or two: back-up & reload notes, send via email, notification alarm…

Comment on Quick guide to the new app widget padding/margins in ICS / Android 4.0+ (backwards-compatibility & new issues) by redwarp

redwarp — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:05:28 +0000

Can’t do that, it’s a note widget ^^ (memento)
Well, I guess it’s not that important, only a few users will be impacted, and they might create new widgets on their own if they want.

I wanted the neat widget resize capability that comes with Honeycomb and ICS ! But only ICS adds the “minResizeWidth” and “minResizeHeight” params, so… I compiled against Android 15.

Anyway, thanks for the tip, I kind of feel bad I didn’t thought about it on my own.